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Friday, June 3, 2016

Finding Egan

Field of cattle

Egan, Texas is on some maps and not on others.
It’s at the corner of Farm roads 2280 and 917, 25 miles almost due south of
Fort Worth. Settled by M. J., J. P., and W. E. Miller during the Civil War, the
town site was surveyed in 1883, when the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad built
tracks through the area. The town was named by a surveyor, but records don’t
show who that was. A post office began service there in 1883, and within two
years there were 50 in the population; there was also a store, a school, and
two churches. There was once a winery in Egan, but it closed during
prohibition. By the mid-1920s the population had risen to 115. Egan's post
office closed sometime after 1930, and the population fell to back to 50 by the
late 1940s. By 1990 the population had drifted down to about 21 and has
remained at that level. The Near-Normal
Travelers went back to this area to sample the burgers at the Best Burger Barn
(previously reviewed in Looking
around Lillian in April, 2016). Parked in front of the restaurant was a
1937 Ford business coupe, harkening back to just after Egan was in its heyday. For
information about my rating system, see Reading the
Reviews.

Four carrots

Best Burger Barn has a different address than previously
reported: 5108 Conveyor Drive,

Top L to R: Santa Fe burger, Jalapeño burgerBottom: Bleu Burger

Egan, TX. However, the Cleburne address is still
shown on Google. We had tried the catfish and were well pleased. We were just
as pleased with the burgers! Dave had a Santa Fe Burger with the largest onion
rings I’d seen in a very long while. The burger was a third of a pound with
lettuce, tomato, onion, Monterey Pepper Jack cheese, bacon and guacamole. Vince
also had onion rings but with a Jalapeño Burger; this came with bacon Monterey
Pepper Jack cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, and jalapeños. I had the Bleu
Burger with fried okra. My burger had lettuce, tomato, and blue cheese; it was
very good and enough to take half home. Both Vince and Dave said that the onion
rings were wonderful, sweet/spicy and crispy. My okra was done just right –
crispy and hot. Next time we go, I’m ordering the Fried Green Basket that is a
mix of okra, green beans and green tomatoes, all fried.